Indigenous Medicine Survey Questions

Due to the complex nature of the issue and that I found many people would not know how to answer an unscripted interview based on Indigenous medicine, I revalued my methodology and decided to create a survey to answer my research question. A survey can present both quantitative and qualitative data, which made it both easier for me as a researcher to interpret participant’s answers and for participants to answer with whatever level of knowledge they had. The Basis of my research is around Trent Indigenous studies students, of either non-indigenous or indigenous students, as well as other categories. The study is based on both trust and security as many wished to remain anonymous through the process. The research scope discusses both personal and scholastic connections to Indigenous medicine, and the motives behind making the survey will be discussed below. After determining the question I was interested in discovering; what stereotypes are known and believed to be associated with Indigenous medicine and how does familiarity with the topic influence these views? As the major focus of my research, the majority of the survey questions were written keeping this in mind, but some questions I created are seemingly outside this question but in reality are needed for me to analyze without …show more content…
The methods that are readily available on Qualtrics include; Data analyses, Text analysis, topic boxes, topic tabs, theme tabs, cross tabs, weighting, and data graphics. Though I did not use all the methods of analyzing available, the types I used helped to compare answers as well as to code major themes that were given in text answers. The first thing I found when overviewing the answers was to cross tabulate the questions that were dependent on each other, as well as discover any themes that were